Strengthening our Congo Community with a Goat Bank

Summary

We want to organize our community around a 'goat bank' business: importing two Boer goats and cross breeding with local goats we will produce and share a high yield goat herd, ensuring constant supply

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

97% of our people are engaged in rural subsistence farming but this yields very low production. So we have food insecurity and malnutrition among children, breast feeding and pregnant mothers The Goat Bank Project targets one community - in Sabu parish

Activities

The idea is of a bank not lending money but lending goats, a person receives a female goat and when there is offspring passes on a female goat to the bank community. The goats will be cross-bred from local does and imported bucks, to provide improvem

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

With an introduced better goat breed we aim to improve the quality and quantity of the goatherd to ensure constant supply of meat and milk. As well as achieving food security in the community and reducing malnutrition, we will increase household inco

Project Message

Yes we can break the Vicious circle of poverty
- Mama Mado Beriu, Chair person

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Vincent Ulargiw,
Project Leader
Nyalebbe Trading Centre, Mahagi Territory, DRC.
P.O Box 111
Nebbi, Uganda 256
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
+256772381722
Email:

Project Sponsor

Vincent Ulargiw

Organisation

Community Development Alliance
P.O Box 111,
Nebbi, - -
Uganda
+256772381722
http://www.easterncongo.net/

Learn more about Community Development Alliance and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Congo, Democratic Republic of the and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Congo, Democratic Republic of the, read the Human Development Report on Congo, Democratic Republic of the or the Wikipedia entry for Congo, Democratic Republic of the.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 24, 2009.

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